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A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.

Guy de Maupassant

The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
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Bed Born Death Life
We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.
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Eyes Memories Object Ourselves People
You’ll find that my coquetry is quite impartial, which allows me to keep my friends.
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Death Fact Live
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
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Inspirational Life Live Worth
To lie about a far country is easy.
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Country Easy Lying
I said, ‘If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn’t we meet them a long time ago?
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Earth Existence Time
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
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Goodness Life Love Misunderstand Treat Yourself
A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.
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Kiss Law Oneself Steal Worth
…A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
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Algebra Art Dreams Music Poet Strange
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered.
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Discover Dreams Reality Travel
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
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Leaving Literature Myself
We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.
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Anand Thakur
The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in a dictionary.
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Betrayal Finding Ignorance Obstacle Secret
Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.
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Astonishment Death Government People Right
Love always has its price, come whence it may.
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Love Price Time

A lawful kiss is never worth as much as a stolen one.

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